SolidFire has introduced the latest addition to its Agile Infrastructure (AI) family of pre-validated converged infrastructure designs. Built with its all-flash scale-out storage system at the foundation, SolidFire’s new AI for Virtual Infrastructure incorporates industry-leading technology from Dell and VMware into a thoroughly tested reference architecture optimised to consolidate and guarantee performance to thousands of virtual workloads, operating systems and applications from a single, shared infrastructure. This combined solution simplifies and accelerates the deployment of repeatable, dynamic virtualised IT environments that can be customised to meet the ever-changing expectations of IT service, delivery and consumption. The latest in its series of comprehensive AI solutions, SolidFire’s new Virtual Infrastructure for dynamic IT environments combines: SolidFire’s all-flash scale-out block storage platform, Dell PowerEdge R630 servers and Dell Networking S55 and S4810 switches, and VMware vSphere. Leveraging SolidFire’s unique QoS capabilities, storage policies can be provisioned and enforced to isolate and guarantee performance to each workload while running thousands of workloads simultaneously within a single, shared infrastructure. SolidFire AI for Virtual Infrastructure with Dell and VMware enable IT organisations to consolidate, automate and scale business-critical virtualised environments to:
- Non-disruptively expand system infrastructure with instant resource availability and seamless generational upgrades, enabling organisations to react and respond to current IT needs in real time.
- Deliver fine-grain performance control to every workload, ensuring application predictability and facilitating consolidation at scale.
- Automate all of the complex storage management tasks and deliver deep management integration.
- Deliver secure multi-tenancy on a resilient, self-healing architecture to reduce operational overhead and risk.
- Maximise utilisation of resources with global, always-on efficiencies to reduce the data centre footprint and lower operational costs.
"All-flash arrays have proven their ability to deliver the highest absolute performance, excel at delivering performance consistently despite varying workload requirements, and reliably handle mixed data center workload configurations in terms of throughput and latencies,” said Eric Burgener, Flash Storage Research Director at IDC. “Solutions like SolidFire’s Agile Infrastructure that incorporate performance, scalability, enterprise-class data services and granular QoS controls create IT infrastructures that can efficiently meet evolving business requirements. IT environments that are running high levels of utilisation with many simultaneous workloads can benefit from converged infrastructure designs that deliver consistent performance to very unpredictable virtualised and cloud-based workloads.”
“Enterprise IT departments are under considerable pressure to deliver IT services with greater speed, agility and efficiency than ever before,” said SolidFire’s Founder and CEO Dave Wright. “AI for Virtual Infrastructure provides enterprises with the agility, scale, automation and operational efficiency to transform their organisations’ data center infrastructure to support delivery of IT as a Service.
With AI, customers are provided everything they need to build modern, virtualised data centers that can consolidate multiple workloads, scale-out to add capacity and performance as business needs dictate, and automate storage provisioning, management, monitoring and reporting.”
